Hamish MacLean

Even Aurora Energy’s lower price hikes due to take effect next month could hurt some Otago families, a University of Otago researcher says.

Interest in coastal properties in Dunedin is as high as ever despite warnings intense storms, increased floods and rising insurance premiums will batter owners’ bottom lines.

The breach in a Taieri River floodbank that kept the Otago Regional Council and farmers busy when the river rose with heavy rain at the weekend was caused by an old steel pipe, of unknown origin.

Despite record high prices and "immense" competition, first-home buyers are making up an increasing part of the Southern real estate market.

Two hundred people are stranded after the rising water of Silverstream cut off the Whare Flat Folk Festival, northwest of Dunedin, today.

Children have played in the branches of the Southern rata at Dunedin’s Knox Church for generations.

Up to five new independent members could help the Grow Dunedin Partnership address concerns raised in a review critical of the partnership tasked with supporting Dunedin’s economic development.

Ongoing discussions regarding a possible new energy scheme for Dunedin will require some decisions to be made in the coming months, Southern Partnership Group chairman Pete Hodgson says.

Flooding in February wiped out many whitebait huts and stands in the South at the start of the year, so when whitebaiting begins today, many in the South will be playing catch-up, Southland...